American Piety

The Nature of Religious Commitment

Rodney Stark,Charles Y. Glock

• Editore: University of California Press
• Anno: 2023
• ISBN:
  9780520342798
• Edizione: 1
• Argomento: Theology & Religion
• Categoria: Comparative Religion

How religious are Americans these days? How many still believe in God, in Biblical miracles, in heaven and hell? Do people pray? How much money is being given to churches, by Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Roman Catholics, Lutherans, and other groups? American Piety, the first of a three-volume study of religious commitment, answers these and a host of other questions about the contemporary religious scene. Particularly startling are the contrasts in beliefs, practices, and experiences revealed among the eleven major Christian denominations whose membership is compared. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1970.
How religious are Americans these days? How many still believe in God, in Biblical miracles, in heaven and hell? Do people pray? How much money is being given to churches, by Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Roman Catholics, Lutherans, and other groups? Amer

Indice dei contenuti

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• PREFACE
• CONTENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• Chapter 1 THE NATURE OF RELIGIOUS COMMITMENT4
• Chapter 2 RELIGIOUS BELIEF'
• Chapter 3 MEASURING RELIGIOUS BELIEF
• Chapter 4 RELIGIOUS PRACTICE—RITUAL
• Chapter 5 RELIGIOUS PRACTICE— DEVOTIONALISM
• Chapter 6 RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE
• Chapter 7 RELIGIOUS KNOWLEDGE
• Chapter 8 CHURCHES AS MORAL COMMUNITIES
• Chapter 9 PATTERNS OF FAITH
• Chapter 10 THE SWITCHERS: CHANGES OF DENOMINATION
• Chapter 11 ARE WE ENTERING A POST-CHRISTIAN ERA? *
• INDEX